Synopsis
Despite being deaf Sang-guk never forgets to smile while he makes furniture for a living. Kyung-hee can’t hear either but with her natural beauty and outgoing personality, she enjoys her job at a sign language interpretation center. Between them they have hearing daughter Bora who is a film director and a son named Gwang-hee. When, after moving eight times since marriage, Sang-guk wants to move one more time, Kyung-hee opposes him. In filming the silent world of her parents, the director discovers new stories coming from herself and her younger brother, who both grew up moving back and forth between two worlds – one of silence and the other of sound.

Program Note
Despite living in the world of sounds, the first language LEE Kil-bora, the director, and her younger brother Kwang-hee learned was
 not words but sign language because they were born to deaf parents who lived in the world without sounds. Imagine how confusing
 or strange it would have been for the kids, who began using their hands first before their mouths, to leave their parents and enter
 the world full of sounds.

 When she turned twenty, she realized and understood that having no sense of hearing doesn’t mean hearing no ‘sounds’. Since
 then, she decided to create a special and silent world in her film. She disclosed her decision at the ‘Pitch & Catch’ in the IWFFIS last
 year and won the Documentary Ock Rang Award and the Audience Award. This year, she finally screens her film Glittering Hands
 for the first time, attempting to be a bridge between the deaf and the non-disabled.

 The film invites the audience to the family when they joyfully sit around a Christmas tree after decorating it together. The lights on
 the tree are brightly shining and the film begins with the sound of a huge applause, silent but glittering. We are welcoming this new
 sensation, the world of sounds in which you can see, touch, and feel. [LEE Angela]